Jaime Lerner Quotes
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.
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Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.
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I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
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We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
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The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
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A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
